Multi-Community Risk Assessment Framework for Drinking Water
Abstract
Drinking water supply involves a complex network of natural and man-made infrastructure necessary to capture, store, convey, treat, and discharge this necessary resource. Each component in this “cloud to tap” supply chain faces a host of threats such as systemic decay, population change, natural disaster, cyber and physical attacks, and/or contamination incidents. Evaluating and quantifying the near- and long-term implications of these stressors on the risk and resilience of the current water infrastructure system has historically been implemented at the local utility level. The Drinking Water Resilience Project (DWRP), a collaboration between the Department of Homeland Security, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), and the University of Tennessee (UT) is aimed at providing a more comprehensive view of water utility risk and resilience. Specifically, Sandia’s effort will develop an infrastructure risk assessment tool to support self-assessment by the asset owner/operator using an interactive, data-rich, web-based application that guides the user through the analysis. The associated analysis is intended to be simple, consistent and comparable. This facilitates the sharing of results, in a secure environment, across multiple levels of government as the need requires. This sharing helps place individual utility results in the broader context of risk borne by similar utilities across the U.S. Shared analysis also helps identify and address issues with assets and resources shared across multiple utilities. Most importantly, risks and mitigating measures can be prioritized across different geographic scales to aid funding decisions made at levels beyond the capacity of a single utility. A demonstration of the framework will be given along with demonstration results from several public utilities.
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drinking waterCollections
Citation
Tidwell, Vincent; Lowry, Thomas; Peplinski, William; Mitchell, Roger; Binning, David; Meszaros, Jenny (2016). Multi-Community Risk Assessment Framework for Drinking Water. Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /193665.